Tuesday, 25 February 2014

At the top of Moffat Headland is this simple sculpture, a bronze towel on an etched block of sandstone. On the towel are the words "Moffateers" and "Plus" - the plus being a reference to the badges worn by those who had ridden waves at Moffs greater than a particular height.

Sunday, 23 February 2014

The giant tree fern is endemic to this region, and this specimen has a trunk at least two metres tall. Unfortunately there are lots of other similar species and I don't have a clue if this is actually one of the local variety or an interloper. It's nice though.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Some mornings I just sit and watch the waves come to a gentle stop in the shallows. For reasons that haven't been explained to me, on days like this it is as though the water has been thickened to a rich creamy consistency, and everything seems to move in slow motion.

Saturday, 15 February 2014

Arriving home after watching the sunrise, I thought I show a little of where I live.

It's true that we don't have a roof or electricity at the moment, and life is a little like living in a tent with a solid floor, and I tend to work from about this time of the morning until the equivalent in the afternoon. My little respite is that walk each day to the sand!

Saturday, 8 February 2014

The shopfront is real, as is the awning, but I'd be curious to know how close to original the lettering style and the lovely leaf motif is. I suspect that our perception may be different from the historic reality, but I'd love to see an early photo to prove me wrong.

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

The late Steve Irwin "The Crocodile Hunter", was a keen surfer who from the time he was jus the kid from the reptile place on the highway, could be found most mornings on a wave somewhere on the Sunshine Coast. He went on to turn his parent's reptile park into a world famous zoo and himself into a warrior of sorts for conservation, but whenever he was home he'd still be found out on the waves, and not always wearing his boots and safari suits.

Some of his boards were/are on display in the "Surfing through the Decades" exhibition in Caloundra which closes tomorrow.

Sunday, 2 February 2014

A super collection of old surfboards "Surfing down the decades" is currently being exhibited at the Caloundra Performing Arts Centre.

Admission is a gold coin donation to Surfers with Disabilities, and you have three more days to get down there. For those in the northern hemisphere... just be content to look at this photograph and be assured it was a nostalgic old ride for some of us!

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Unlike some countries in which I happen to live, dogs and bicycles are not necessarily welcome inside trading houses here. The nice folk at the Moffat Beach Post Office make provision for that, and there's even somewhere to charge your electric bike, (or dog if you don't have a real one) or perhaps have a shave.

Actually I've been parking my grand dog at this very spot for several years and hadn't noticed the power outlet until reviewing this photo, but I'm sure I'll find a use for it in future!

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The Queensland Sunshine Coast Shires of Noosa and Maroochy merged with Caloundra City on March 15th 2008, and on that day this blog began. A few years later, Noosa left the rest of us to our own devices, but the blog lived on.

One could wax lyrically or even cynically about the beauty and amenity and emerging economics of "The Sunny Coast", but why not let the pictures do the talking?

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